The Sunset Kings

The Sunset Kings is an indie-rock band featuring vocals, guitars, bass, drums, violin, and saxophone. Their sound draws from an eclectic list of influences spanning from The Doors, Radiohead and Bruno Mars to Snarky Puppy, BADBADNOTGOOD, and The Mars Volta. Formed in Boston in 2015, The Sunset Kings live in a music house (The Music Factory) and put forth a raw and developed sound that can only grow out of the tensions of spending everyday with your closest friends in life, business, and art.

The Sunset Kings is an American indie rock band that started in Boston but is now based in Zoom, Dropbox, Spotify, and Youtube. Their cinematic lyrics are inspired by the founding members time in the Boston poetry scene, and is influenced by Frank Ocean just as much as Hayley Williams. Their wall of sound is characterized by jazz-infused melodies swirling around a smooth vocal croon.

Indie music blog The Static Dive calls The Sunset Kings “a group with a uniquely postmodern view of what it means to be an Indie Rock band. Their sound owes as much to the worlds of art, poetry and cinema as it does to Rock & Roll. With beat poet lyricism and musical arrangements that incorporate elements of Jazz, Pop, Psychedelia and Soul, they are redefining what it means to be ‘Alternative.’ It is a sound of simultaneous evolution and entropy, which is fitting for a band experiencing exactly those same natural forces acting on their own existence."

The band’s first full-length album, “The Ballad of Bella Fury”, made The Sunset Kings an underground indie darling in Boston, partnering with organizations like Medicine Wheel and National Park Services, as well as allowing them to perform in multiple cities across the US including Las Vegas, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Boston music journalist Bill Copeland called it “a promising start” and praised the band for “taking prog rock to a higher level”.

Their newest release “Shadow Work In Technicolor” follows the band into 2020, two years after the death of their bassist Shag. The tug and war of touring as an independent band and the members of the band dealing with grief, loss, and trying to maintain their lives back in Boston lead to the ultimate dissolution of The Sunset Kings, as each member ventures into independent solo projects. “Shadow Work In Technicolor” is the joint effort of vocalist Star and saxophonist Neumi as they weigh the pressures of their escalating musical experiences against their hidden personal struggles.